Proverbs and old sayings, page 423

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Life is a stairway - some are going up, others are going down.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about life

The Blind hen, when it sees again, wants even to mount the cock.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about blind

If God should listen to rooks, he should send a plague to horses.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about god

He who lies, hangs from a gallows - he who does not, hangs twice.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

If The Priest is used to get drunk, the people do not sober at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about people

They do not want him in the village, he asks for the priest's house.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about home, house

Let the man who has suffered ask it -- not the man who has travelled.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man

A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about word

The Bad tax-collector will sell one of your oxen, the good one - both.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about commerce, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Too many barbers would be ready to shave the beard of a beardless man.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man

If you light one candle for God, then you must light two for the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about light, devil, god, contentment

The Old man is not asked where he aches, but why he does not ache there.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man, old, olderness

Why didn't the midwife, who cut your naval string, cut your head instead?

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about heads

If you want to drown yourself, don't torture yourself with shallow water.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about water, contentment

The Donkey, though it may go to the Holy Land, will still come back a donkey.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Watch your step when you walk: you may find nothing but you will not stumble.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about nothing, contentment

If you have no enemies think then that your own mother might have produced one.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about enemies, mother, contentment

Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about bad luck, good luck, mother, contentment

With a king it is the same as with fire - stay neither close by, nor too far away.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about fire, fire brigade

The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about husband, wife, clothes, face